Anchoring device.



No. 830,428. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906. F. W. GARTRELL. ANCHORING DEVICE'.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25, 1906.

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IINITED STATES PATENT OF F ICE.

FRANCIS W. GARTRELL, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

NCHORING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application led January 25, 1906. Serial No. 297.898.

To all whom, t iii/ty concern,.-

Beit known that I, FRANoIs W. GARTRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Anchoring Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an anchoring device capable for advantageous use in many different connections, one of which is as a means for firmly holding a door-frame in position in an opening within a wall or partition of masonry whether the latter be of terracotta or cement blocks or bricks.

In making a build-ing of blocks of terracotta or cement it is ordinarily a difficult and laborious matter to solidly hold a door-frame in an opening therein. By `virtue of my in. vention I can secure a door-frame in an opening in such a building in a substantial permanent manner. V-

My anchoring device comprises, preferably, a body of skeleton form provided with a driving member arranged ordinarily at an angle to the said body. By virtue of this relation between the driving member and the body the former can be caused to penetrate a doorframe at an angle and while the body is hori- 'zontal, so that when the driving member has been driven home the body will lie solidly against the upper surface of a block.

- The anchoring device is of simple construction, and it can be made of any desirable material. I iind that I can make it satisfactorily from wire in a single piece.

The device, as will be understood from what I have hereinbefore stated, can be used for other purposes than that specifically set forth. It may be used for bonding a wall of masonryto a wooden frame Wall.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification I show certain simple forms of embodiment of the invention, which, to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, I will set forth in detail in. the following description, while the novelty of the invention will be included in the claims succeeding said description.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a portion of a wall or partition, a portion of a door, and an anchoring device associated therewith involving my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the anchoring device shown in said Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a different form of the device.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views. y

As will be obvious, a device involving my invention can be made in several different ways and of diHerent kinds of material. In the drawings to which I have referred I represent two of the ways in which the device may be made and in both of these it is constructed from wire, although this is not essential.

Referring to Figs. l and 2, the anchoring device therein illustrated comprises a body which I will denote in a general way by 2, and a driving member, as 3. The body may be of any suitable shape, while the driving member I prefer to make curved, although it extends from the body at an angle to the latter. The driving member is preferably pointed at its free end, so that it can be easily driven by a hammer, hatchet, or other device into the jamb of a door-frame when the anchoring device is used in connection with a door-frame. The'body 2 is shown as being of skeleton form, so that the cement used in uniting two superimposed blocks or stones can fill the opening or openings thereof and when set to hold the body in place between said blocks or stones. This skeleton formation of the body 2 may be produced in several ways. For such purpose I have represented the body 2 as triangular. The Vouter terminal end of one of the side branches of the body 2 has an eye or loop, as 4, to receive the outer terminal end of the complemental side branch of said body, said complemental side branch being provided with an extension constituting the driving member 3, to which I have hereinbefore referred. The several legs or branches of the triangular body 2, when the anchoring device is in operative relation, lie in a common horizontal plane, or substantially so, and upon the upper surface of the lower of two superimposed blocks. The driving member extends at an angle to the body 2. The eye or loop 4 holds the driving member 3 in proper relation with the body2 and also maintains the branches of said body or the parts thereof in proper relation with each other.

It will be assumed that a door-frame has been set in a partially-formed opening and that it is desired to fasten the frame in the opening by an anchoring device involving the invention. To do this, the driving member 3 is driven by a suitable implement into the j amb of a door-frame and the driving member enters said jamb at a downward and in- ICO ward angle so that the body 2, as it approaches the block or stone next the jamb, will always be in parallelism with said block or stone, the result being that when the driving member has been entered as far as can be in the jamb the body will lie flatwise and solidly upon said block or stone. When this is done, cement can be laid upon the block or stone and a second block or stone put thereupon, the cement when set uniting the two blocks or stones and filling the skeleton or opening body 2 to maintain the latter permanently in place. Any desirable number of the anchoring devices may be used in connection with the door-frame, the number depending upon the size of the door-frame and the character of the building.

In the form of the fastening device shown in Fig. 3 the use thereof is exactly the same following that represented in Figs. l and 2. In said Fig. 3 the body of the fastening device is designated by 2, and the driving member by 3a. One of the side branches or legs of the body 2a is provided with an eye or loop 4a, horizontally disposed to receive the vertically-disposed loop 4b upon the companion side leg of said body 2, The two eyes or loops 4a and 4b are therefore interlocked or interengaged. From the loop or eye 4b the driving member 3 extends. The interlocking ofthe two loops 4 and 4b provides a strong union or lock-joint at the junction of the side branches of the body 2@L and which may receive hard blows from a hammer Without injuring the device. The device shown by Fig. 8 is therefore intended for use in connection with door-frames or other wooden structures of rather hard wood, for the driving member thereof can 4be driven home without distorting or injuring the anchoring device, owing to the strong joint to which I have alluded.

The body of my anchoring device is illustrated as being of triangular form, by reason of which I secure bracing effect at the several angles thereof and also at the junction of one of said angles with the driving member. By reason of this relation such body when embedded in masonry is interlocked therewith in a solid substantial manner and is absolutely held stationary and prevented from being thrust sidewise.

The device is a very simple construction; it can be inexpensively made it can'be readily applied, and when in an operative relation acts efficiently for the purpose for which it is intended.

I have spoken of the driving member 3 as being curved. This, however, is not essential, although by slightly curving it, as shown, it takes a iirm hold upon the wood into which it is driven. The skeleton or loop body 2 may be laid upon blocks of terra-cotta, cement, or other iireproof material, which may -be united together by cement, mortar, or

other substance. It will be seen that the driving members 3 and 2fL extend downwardly from the respective bodies 2 and 2, By this I refer to the downward inclination of these driving memberswhen they are in the walk I/Vhat I claim isl. A device of the class described comprising an'angularbodyhaving side branches, one of the side branches having a loop and the other branchlextending through said loop and provided with a driving member constituting a continuation thereof.

2. A device of the class described comi rising a bod havin y side branches each of p D b the branches having a loop, the loops being transverse to each other and interengaged, and a driving member extending from one of the loops.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS W. GARTRELL. Witnesses:

JAMES L. Normrs, Jr., A. B. WEBB. 

